The is the first Ford truck off the Ford Motor Company's new $2,100,000 truck assembly line at the Highland Park plant. Noah Pringle tightens the last screw, as E.J. Wedge (center), and Barney Laney, watch. Ford Motor Company

John Portman, left, architect for the Detroit riverfront development, shows Henry Ford II, board chairman of Ford Motor Company, an architectural model for the first phase of the Renaissance Center.. Ford Motor Company

The Ford Motor Company Dearborn Truck Assembly Plant at the Rouge Complex is recognizable from the air by its rooftop, covered in sedum, a flowering plant in Dearborn in June 2004. Chip Somodevilla, Detroit Free Press

Sedum plants on the roof at the Dearborn Truck Assembly Plant in October 2013. 2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the industrial 10.4 acre living roof which is about the equivalent of 10 football fields. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press

Cory Coffey and her husband Stephen McGee in her grandfather's 1970 Ford Sport Custom truck in front of the Michigan Central Station lit up with the 2 latin mottos written by Father Gabriel Richard after the fire of 1805, "Speramus Meliora" and "Resurget Cineribus" that translate as "We hope for better things" and "It will rise from the ashes" on Thursday, June 14, 2018. Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press

Ford Motor Co. was incorporated on June 16, 1903. Its first office was a rented building on Mack Avenue in Detroit.

It is re-establishing a presence in Detroit this year, capped by its announcement that it is buying the Michigan Central Station. The car company and the Michigan Central Station are both embedded in the narrative of Detroit.

Dec. 26, 1913: First train left Michigan Central Station for Saginaw and Bay City; first train arrived from Chicago. The depot was supposed to open in January 1914, but a fire at the downtown depot expedited the MCS opening.